On 19/10/2023 17:35, Richard England wrote:
On 10/19/23 07:15, stan via users wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Oct 2023 14:53:52 +0200
> GianPiero Puccioni <gianpiero.puccioni(a)isc.cnr.it> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a problem with the keyboard, once in while the key I press
>> start repeating even after a short press and doesn't stop until I
>> press another key.
>>
>> I had to disable the key repeat (not optimal) as it was disrupting my
>> work. This is going on for months, I waited for several updates to
>> see if thing got better but to no avail.
>>
>> My setup is a Laptop Dell G15 F38 with KDE(both X11 and Wayland).
>> Is there something I can try to fix this?
> This sounds like this could be a hardware error to me; the laptop is not
> sending the keypress release to the driver. It could also be that the
> driver is not catching the release signal. Is there anything about the
> keypress when this happens that is unique? Is it a very light tap,
> such that it would release very quickly, perhaps causing a failure of
> the driver to catch the release? Or really hard?
>
> I remember that there is an application that when it runs it shows
> the key press and key release events, but I can't remember the name of
> it. Perhaps someone else knows it. If you can run that, you can then
> try to replicate the error, and see if occasionally a release is missed.
> And if it is the way the key is pressed causing the problem.
I believe the utility called "xev" is one of the tools that reports the key
press events. It is available for installation in the repos.
~~R
Yes, have that. But I did another update (I didn't see there was some new stuff
including a kernel) and using Wayland seems that it works a lot better, either
it is fixed or it happens more rarely. Let's see what happens.
Thanks all for the help.
G